The Villain Carries the Holy Sword – Chapter 70.2

Chapter 70.2: On a Spring Day (2)

Count Garick turned his head slightly and looked at the four people following him.

“I’m glad. It’s good to have good people by your side.”

Rude smiled faintly.

“I think so too.”

“When I first heard about their plan, I couldn’t help but chuckle. The princess, Ethelred’s two brothers, and the young lady of Wareham want to make things right between you and me.”

It was an absurd composition.

Each one of them alone could strut around Airian Island, and the fact that they were gathered together to do this was even more so.

Rude gave a wry smile that resembled Cain’s.

“Actually, I should have been the one to approach you first. I apologize for making such a big deal out of this.”

Count Garick shook his head and said firmly.

“No. It’s always good to be with good people.”

“Do you also have good people, Lord Count?”

Count Garick looked into the distance.

The horizon may seem close to the eye, but even if you ride all day, you can’t reach it.

The past was the same.

If you reach out at that time, it feels like what is happening now, but in the end, it flows out of your fingers like sand.

“I did.”

That’s why Count Garick couldn’t say anything more. It was so precious and dear that he couldn’t even bear to put it into words.

Rude looked at Garick’s side face for a moment.

As the sun began to set, the red sunset illuminated his face. In it, Rude discovered not the distant count, but a person close by.

“I’m glad.”

“Hmm?”

Garick turned his head at Rude’s words. What he saw was Rude’s act of quickly looking ahead.

Count Garick smiled.

“Did you just repeat what I said?”

“I apologize if I offended you.”

“No. It is natural for a son to follow his father. That is what it means to be a son, to be so alike and to grow in such a way.”

Rude put the word son in his mouth several times and rolled it around.

“……Yes.”

He still hadn’t accepted it in his heart, but the strange tingling felt good.

“Actually, there’s something that’s been bothering me since earlier.”

“What is it?”

“You━”

Kwaaang━!

Suddenly, an explosion rang out in the distance.

“You stay back!”

Cain shouted at Abel and jumped forward.

“Yes!”

Cain rushed forward, Abel backward, and Isoel remained in her spot to protect Oleciren.

Count Garick saw Cain’s eyes change simultaneously with the explosion.

If it was diplomacy before, now is the time for war.

“We sent soldiers ahead to scout as bait! The plan was to punish the rebels for capturing it.”

“Then it seems the resistance from the rebels was stronger than expected.”

“Yes. I thought they were Arian’s puppets, but I didn’t know they would have this kind of bomb.”

“There’s more.”

Rude’s voice cut in between the two of them as they urgently exchanged information.

When Garick and Cain looked back, Rude was clenching his fists.

“From the shape and sound of the explosion I just heard, it’s a ‘Decaster 4’. Then there will be stronger ones.”

Count Garick’s eyes widened.

“How do you know that so well?”

“I told you they tried to overthrow the count’s castle with the rebels. Since my ability reduced the use of bombs, they showed me the bomb storage.”

Just like the inn, the rebels.

He realizes how much his son suffered when he was out of his mind. Garick clenched his fist as if to crush it along with Rude.

As if aware of this, Rude hurriedly continued speaking.

“And the most expensive thing in that warehouse━”

“If they have the Decaster series, it means they’ve opened a trade route with the ‘Diobin Top’ of Delft, so the best they can do is ‘Mouton 2’, right?”

Cain’s quick judgment.

Rude’s eyes widened.

He knew he was good at fighting and cool, but he didn’t expect him to know this much.

“T, That’s correct.”

Cain spoke as he took a stance to draw out Agweska at any moment.

“How many rebels were there when you were there?”

“Considering the consumption of food, there are about 30 people.”

Count Garick hurriedly added an explanation to Rude’s words.

“We’ve caught a lot of them in the meantime, so there should be less than 5 left!”

“Good, Abel!”

“Yes, Lord Ethelred!”

“Stay here and guard. Don’t get caught in the bombs, I’ll go and take care of the rest.”

He was thinking of letting one of them go in case a fight broke out with the rebels, so that Garick and Rude could defeat them together.

‘But not bombs.’

Fortunately, the Decaster and Mouton series are not magical bombs. Perhaps the biggest problem was funding.

‘Then they definitely won’t have a cannon, but we need to watch out for crossbows.’

The place where bombs are used the most in the world is the Great Wall.

So Rude, who is well-versed in explosions, couldn’t help but know exactly.

Cain gauged the level of bombs the rebels could use.

Paat━!

He kicked the ground.

Hwaaaaaaaa━.

Cain’s new form sprinted, drawing a black trajectory in the air, and flower petals rose in the strong wind along the path.

Cain and the soldiers of Count Crowl, who arrived in a small village near Ironbridge, immediately recognized each other.

It was impossible not to know, as what Cain had done in Count Crowl’s territory was too great.

“Where are the enemies?”

“Four of them are holding out in the central village warehouse!”

Count Garick’s information was more accurate than Cain had expected. While preparing for the worst, he couldn’t help but admire his administrative skills.

“Any casualties?”

“There are a number of minor injuries, but no serious injuries or deaths.”

“Good. Fall back.”

“Yes, sir.”

The soldiers saluted, and Cain nodded once before staring at the village warehouse, which looked several times larger than the other houses.

Ttat━.

Then, he kicked the dirt floor of the village and pulled out Agweska.

“Stop! We’ll blow it up!”

A threatening shout erupted from between the cracks in the warehouse.

But Cain ran without hesitation.

Kwaaang━!

A bomb planted in advance on the road exploded.

Cain’s purple eyes boiled. The world slowed down to the point where even the wind could be seen, and a red explosion could be seen erupting from the ground.

‘I’ll cut it!’

Paat.

The red explosion and black smoke of the bomb were cut in half by a black straight line drawn as if with a ruler.

And purple eyes rushed towards them.

“It’s that Cain!”

“The Sword Master of Ironbridge!?”

Since they lived near the count’s castle, there was no way they wouldn’t know Cain.

Gugugung━.

After cutting and crushing the explosions that went off countless times, Cain cut the entrance of the village warehouse diagonally and collapsed it.

Inside, four rebels were kneeling with their heads bowed.

“P, Please spare us!”

They didn’t have the guts to rush at Cain, who had created a miracle, of all people.

Cain glanced around the warehouse, checking for other enemies, and noticed two wheel tracks.

“What’s that?”

“T, That is.”

“I’ll spare the one who answers first.”

“The captain took the ballista and went out!”

“Why?”

“One of the count’s servants and the captain are childhood friends, and he knew in advance that the count was coming……”

Tatatat━.

Cain knocked the four unconscious with the handle of Agweska and ran out again.

Hwaaaaaaaa!

‘To think that there would be an internal spy among the rebels.’

He could cut through the explosions, but Abel couldn’t yet.

‘Isoel’s top priority is to protect Oleciren!’

What if they fired ‘Mouton 2’ at Count Garick with a ballista in that situation?

If he had a shield magic artifact, there would be no problem, but what if he didn’t?

Cain ran urgently, assuming the worst-case scenario.

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